# Sabancı Ventures

> Sabancı Ventures is a VC fund in Istanbul backing Information Technology and Software. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $30M
- Last fund: Sep 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sabanci-holding
- Website: https://ventures.sabanci.com

Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$2.8M |
| Series A | $2M–$20M |
| Convertible Note | $250k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 21% |
| Software | 5 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 14% |
| SaaS | 3 | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 10% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 38% |
| Series A | 5 | 17% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 6 | 21% |
| United States | 5 | 17% |
| Germany | 2 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wellbees | Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications. | $3.6M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Albert Health | 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Albert Health | 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| QuEra Computing | QuEra Computing is a company focused on developing quantum computing technology. They specialize in building large-scale quantum computers using neutral atoms. QuEra uses innovative techniques to manipulate and control qubits for quantum computation, aiming to solve complex problems in fields like chemistry, materials science, and machine learning.Their quantum computers operate on a platform that leverages arrays of neutral atoms that are highly scalable, providing a path toward achieving quantum advantage for practical applications. | $230M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Novus Technologies | Novus is a communication technologies company whose products focus on productivity and creativity in content creation using the state-of-the-art approaches in Artificial Intelligence. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| ecoLocked | ecoLocked is turning buildings into carbon sinks! We convert captured carbon from local biomass residues into functional, carbon-negative construction materials. Our products permanently store CO2 in the built environment, reduce the need for fossil raw materials, and deliver targeted functionalities such as thermal insulation, durability, orcuring time reduction.  Thereby, we combine carbon storage and utilization and create a self-sustaining CDR business case | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 03, 2024 |  |
| Wellbees | Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications. | $1M | Convertible Note | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Wellbees | Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications. | $1M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| BRANDEFENSE | Brandefense team visionBe the global leader in cyber threat intelligence and brand monitoring services via solving SOC’s complex challenges. We are here for helping Brandefense customers to protect their brands and reputations against cyber threats.Lets do it togetherDetect. Alarm. Prevent. We will eliminate the noise and be our customer’seyes and ears. By focusing on the cyber threats. Their mission is ours. We will always be ready to be with our customers with our know-how and technical skills. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 21, 2023 |  |
| Fernhay Solutions | Fernhay provides strategic planning, design, product development, project management, consultation, and transportation solutions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Sabancı Ventures invest in?

Sabancı Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sabancı Ventures's check size?

Sabancı Ventures typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.8M at Seed, $2M–$20M at Series A and $250k–$1M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sabancı Ventures participates in.

### When did Sabancı Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sabancı Ventures closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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